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The gold, silver, and bronze Olympic medal shooters in the 50 meter rifle 3 positions (3x40 shots) from the Summer Olympic games.

• 1952 Helsinki
  GOLD Erling Asbjörn Kongshaug, NOR
  SILVER Vilho Ilmari Ylönen, FIN
  BRONZE Boris Andreev, URS

• 1956 Melbourne/Stockholm
  GOLD Anatoli Bogdanov, URS
  SILVER Otakar Horinek, TCH
  BRONZE Johan (John) Sundberg, SWE

• 1960 Rome
  GOLD Viktor Shamburkin, URS
  SILVER Marat Niyazov, URS
  BRONZE Klaus Zähringer, EUA

• 1964 Tokyo
  GOLD Lones Wesley Wigger Jr., USA
  SILVER Velitchko Christov, BUL
  BRONZE Laszlo Hammerl, HUN

• 1968 Mexico
  GOLD Bernd Klingner, FRG
  SILVER John Henry Writer, USA
  BRONZE Vitali Parkhimovich, URS

• 1984 Los Angeles
  GOLD Malcolm Douglas Cooper, GBR
  SILVER Daniel Nipkov, SUI
  BRONZE Alister Millar Allan, GBR

• 1988 Seoul
  GOLD Malcolm Douglas Cooper, GBR
  SILVER Alister Millar Allan, GBR
  BRONZE Kirill Ivanov, URS

• 1992 Barcelona
  GOLD Gratchia Gratsian Hrachya Petikyan, EUN
  SILVER Robert James Foth, USA
  BRONZE Ryohei Koba, JPN

• 1996 Atlanta
  GOLD Jean Pierre Amat, FRA
  SILVER Sergey Beliaev, KAZ
  BRONZE Wolfram Waibel Jr., AUT

• 2000 Sydney
  GOLD Rajmond Debevec, SLO
  SILVER Juha Hirvi, FIN
  BRONZE Harald Stenvaag, NOR

• 2004 Athens
  GOLD Zhanbo Jia, CHN
  SILVER Michael Anti, USA
  BRONZE Christian Planer, AUT

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